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Guess I'll be looking for a replacement for Cursor now... Anyone have recommendations? I like the plan/agent mode and the fact that it's an IDE, so I can use i
by _bypa 6mo ago
Guess I'll be looking for a replacement for Cursor now...
Anyone have recommendations? I like the plan/agent mode and the fact that it's an IDE, so I can use it in the traditional way as well as by yapping with a bunch of agents. Also the Cursor rules I've curated and they do their job well.
- esalman 6mo agoI briefly used Cursor but stopped and went back to VSCode after the 3.0 rewrite when they ditched it.
- dalmo3 6mo agoThe new UI is literally opt-in. Nothing changed for me.
- wek 6mo agoConsider Nimbalyst, its a free visual workspace for Claude Code and Codex that has visual editing of markdown, mockups, diagrams, code with your agents with WYSYWIG diffs as well as task management and kanban session management tied into your agents. Its got a files/plan/editing mode and an agent/sessions mode.
- tristanb 6mo agoany IDE you like and Claude code - i have no idea why you'd want to use something like Cursor, it's time came and went.
- imtringued 6mo agoNot to mention the only company that would have any legitimate interest in acquiring Cursor would be Microsoft since they could just merge VSCode and Cursor into one product at very little cost.
- roygbiv2 6mo agoBecause cursor gives you access to tons of different models, not just the Claude models.
- tomaytotomato 6mo agoThis is outdated, Claude code can be run against any model you want, you just simply need to update the ENV vars. Or if you have Ollama running locally you can do something like this: ollama launch claude --model glm-5:cloud Or if you feel brave and want to turn your laptop into BBQ ollama launch claude --model minimax:2.5
- anthonypasq 6mo agoor you could just use cursor and select between everything at will every request and not have to manage 15 subscriptions
- _bypa 6mo agoExactly that. I don't want lots of subscriptions. Zed with OpenRouter sounds all right except it'll be much more expensive than a subscription, I fear.
- yreg 6mo agoAfaik Claude has 5 hour rolling window rate limits while Cursor has a monthly window on the $20 plan. The 5 hour window sounds annoying for hobbyists who only use it time to time when they want to dive into some personal project.
- tpurves 6mo agoYep this was the moment to finally remember to cancel my cursor subscription. I find it unconscionable to do business with someone who would do business with Elon.
- burnerRhodov2 6mo ago>I find it unconscionable to do business with someone who would do business with Elon. Just curious, why do you hate elon so much?
- gadders 6mo agoYou don't use any companies with a Twitter/X account? That must be tricky.
- avidruntime 6mo agoVoluntarily choosing to not spend money in X related orgs ≠ using services that use X related orgs. As a consumer, our options to vote with our dollar is limited, but that doesn't make it pointless. Real life is not binary and the sentiment that one cannot criticize a system which they partake in is a thought terminating cliche. One only needs to ask "for who does this reflexive thought terminating cliche benefit the most" to find the lede.
- gadders 6mo agoThanks for that but it's unrelated to what the OP said which was "I find it unconscionable to do business with someone who would do business with Elon.". Having an X/Twitter account is doing business with Elon. You could say only paid X accounts qualify for this, but I would imagine most brands have paid accounts. YCombinator has an X account. I suspect the OP is already asking for his Hacker News account to be deleted.
- insane_dreamer 6mo agoZed
- Stevvo 6mo agoUntil yesterday I would have recommended VSCode + Copilot. They had the best pricing of any option. However the pricing was unsustainable and is therefor finished.
- Sammi 6mo agoHow's the ai autocomplete? It was unusable in November when I tried it last and went back to Cursor. Slow and when it finally did something it was just not good. Cursor is super fast and actually gives useful results. I just don't want to give my money to Elon, so I might cancel anyways.
- Stevvo 6mo agoHonestly couldn't tell you anymore; a year ago I was using AI autocomplete, but today AI is writing all code for me.
- Sammi 6mo agoSeriously this is such a common response and it is such an annoying response. Yes I need an IDE. Yes I still find ai autocomplete to be useful. That's why I asked about alternatives for Cursor autocomplete.
- walthamstow 6mo agoYou asked him and he replied
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- uxcolumbo 6mo agoI was planning to sign up to Copilot, since their pricing was per request not per token. Has that changed now?
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- kilroy123 6mo agoIronically I cancelled cursor a few days ago. I went back to good old VSCode and just use the Claude code and codex extensions.
- hamish-b 6mo ago(disclaimer: I work at ampcode) Give the oracle at amp a go :) Our TUI is really nice as well. Get in touch for some credits.
- kisamoto 6mo agoZed - https://zed.dev/ https://zed.dev/ Integrates a lot of agents (I use it with OpenRouter and directly with Pi) natively, is fast (you don't realise how laggy VSCode and its forks are). Biggest disadvantage: lack of extensions. Lots of quality of life missing (e.g. gitignore integration to add/append gitignore files for different languages).
- mghackerlady 6mo agothere's probably an emacs thing out there
- hn1986 6mo agoYou can use VS Code with Claude Code extension. Best of both worlds
- holtkam2 6mo agoJust use the codex plugin for vscode ?
- skzo 6mo agoIn the same boat and landed on Kilo code. Similar to Cursor, open source, based on open code, compatible with claude code configuration and works with all providers. Seems quite future proof to me and you can toggle between providers seemlesly